‘Don’t cut our bursaries!’ say student nurses
‘BURSARIES or bust! Jeremy bite the dust!’ chanted over a thousand student nurses as they marched to Downing Street on Saturday in their campaign...
BA Cabin Crews Vote For A 12-Day Strike
British Airways cabin crew have voted by a massive 92.5 per cent, in an over 80 per cent turnout, in favour of strike action...
Dozens of US banks on verge of collapse!
DOZENS of banks in the United States are on the verge of collapse despite the Biden administration’s recent measures to calm the turbulent markets,...
PCS CONDEMNS JOBS MASSACRE – while Purnell turns bounty hunters onto the unemployed
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement that Labour will slash a further 12,000 jobs and close an additional...
COVER UP! 5 years after de Menezes killing – another policeman escapes trial
UPSET and angry relatives reacted bitterly to the news yesterday that there will be no charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the...
Bmw Ready For Strike Ballot!
Workers at BMW’s Mini plant in Oxford have overwhelmingly rejected a ‘strings attached’ pay offer, raising the prospect of the first strike since 1984. In...
‘Probe Johnson for corporate manslaughter’ – Labour MP – Care home incompetence led to...
‘WHEN will the Prime Minister and others be investigated by the police for alleged corporate manslaughter and why did they not follow the example...
TEF ‘NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE’
THE DEEPLY unpopular Teaching Excellence Frame (Tef) work is failing students, hated by lecturers and not fit for purpose concludes a report released today...
A Privateers Manifesto!
Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday launched the Labour Party’s election manifesto – which pledged to cut billions from public spending, whilst ‘securing the recovery’. Brown...
‘A general strike is the obvious next step’ – Trade unionists tell News Line
MORE than 20,000 trade unionists, workers and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on London’s May Day yesterday. The march was led by...
50 MILLION REFUGEES! – warns Amnesty
‘IN 2013, for the first time since World War II, the number of those forcibly displaced from their homes exceeded 50 million,’ warns an...
STOP SPYING ON WORKERS – demands GMB after Churchill ‘location tracking’
Churchill Security is based in Chorley and employs more than 160 people in the UK, including Cardiff Bay, Cheltenham, Watford, Milton Keynes, Bromley, Abingdon...
Greenspan – ‘Greece will have to leave eurozone’
THE former head of the US central bank, Alan Greenspan, has predicted that Greece will have to leave the eurozone. Greenspan, chairman of the US...
Kiev coupist Nuland visits Syriza leaders!
LAST Tuesday, in a visit that was kept quiet, the American Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland (she oversaw...
TORIES WANT A NEW LEADER TO MEET TRUMP ON JUNE 3rd
PM MAY’S Brexit Withdrawal Bill will not be published or debated until early June, the government said yesterday as she came under more pressure...
IRANIAN DISASTER – 140 killed as plane crashes into flats
140 people were killed yesterday when an Iranian military aircraft crashed into a block of flats in a residential area in the south of...
‘Unite, Rise Up And Resist The Invaders’
President Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to ‘unite, rise up and resist the invaders’, at his show trial yesterday. This prompted chief judge Rauf Abdel...
Met Police Ban Rally At BBC For Palestine!
THE METROPOLITAN Police have been condemned for their decision to impose a last-minute ban on a planned mass pro-Palestinian march starting from outside the...
2,450 sacked by email – 214 Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton shops shut
TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...
Firefighters March With Grenfell Families & Supporters
HUNDREDS of firefighters from fire brigades across the UK marked the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell disaster yesterday by participating in the silent walk...
RMT calls new round of strikes – Rail bosses cancelled talks ‘at one hour’s...
THE RMT rail union will hold a series of 48-hour strikes in December and January after industry bosses failed to offer any new deals...
‘Those responsible must be jailed’ say Grenfell survivors
‘WE HAVE been strong and we are not prepared to be walked over and we do want answers,’ Grenfell survivor Jaquie Hayes said yesterday. She...
90,000 Kenyans executed – £19.9m compensation
UK Foreign Secretary Hague yesterday expressed ‘sincere regret’ and announced compensation totalling £19.9m for Kenyans who were tortured during the Mau Mau uprising in...
CORUS INDUSTRIAL ACTION POSSIBLE say steel union leaders
‘WE don’t rule out industrial action,’ Michael J Leahy, General Secretary of Community, the steelworkers’ union said yesterday. This was after the Tata...
‘READY TO STRIKE’ –angry Wolverhampton NHS Trust workers reject over 300 job...
UNISON yesterday backed ‘extremely angry’ members at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, who have voted in a consultative ballot for strike action in defence of...
‘Go to pharmacist, not GP or A&E’ – NHS England campaign slammed as dangerous
TAKE your sick children to see the pharmacist, rather than the GP or to an A&E. . . this is the message of a...
‘Don’t rob our gold’ – Maduro to UK
SPEAKING to the BBC on Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro specifically expressed hope that his country ‘is not robbed of the gold that legally...
‘A CHILLING ATTACK ON THE PUBLIC SECTOR’ –Prentis condemns government cuts
‘Prime Minister Cameron’s plans to slash public spending will hit the poor and the vulnerable,’ TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned yesterday. Commenting on ...
NHS Rationing ‘Widespread’
Rationing of NHS treatments is becoming more widespread, a survey of GPs and hospital doctors for ‘Doctor’ and ‘Hospital Doctor’ magazines has found. Of the...
Hospital penalised for fast treatment
UNISON Eastern regional head of health Geoff Reason yesterday condemned Labour over £2.5m in penalties imposed on Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust for treating patients...
‘Fair Pay Overdue’ Say Rcm Midwives!
THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched its ‘Fair Pay Overdue’ campaign, demanding an end to the public sector pay cap and a...
Armed Greek Riot Police End Occupation
At 8.00am on Thursday morning the armed Greek riot police invaded the building of the State Electricity Board (DEH) Computer Centre in Athens which...
Israel carries out a new wave of attacks in Gaza and occupied Jerusalem
ISRAEL carried out a wave of new attacks across the Gaza Strip and occupied Jerusalem this week, drawing international condemnation for grave violations of...
SCRAP THE HEALTH BILL SAY GPs – No to a two-tier NHS
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the UK’s largest medical Royal College, yesterday wrote to Prime Minister Cameron calling for the complete withdrawal...
Woodley announces strike ballot for BA cabin crew
The Unite union for British Airways’ 11,000 cabin crew, yesterday confirmed that a fresh ballot for strike action at BA is soon to get...
Silence over whether MI6 tried to recruit Adebolajo
THE official inquiry into the killing of Lee Rigby in 2013 has highlighted the contacts that MI5 and MI6 had with the two attackers Michael...
BBC is urged to reinstate documentary on Palestine
FIVE hundred professionals from the film, television, and media industries, including Gary Lineker, Ruth Negga, Juliet Stevenson, and Miriam Margolyes, have urged the BBC...
PASSENGER FURY OVER rail fare rises!
RAIL ticket prices will soar by up to 10% next January, in price hikes described by the RMT railworkers union yesterday as...
NUS gives full support for university strikes!
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) threw its weight behind the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses yesterday. The NUS pledged its solid...
TUC CALLS A NATIONAL RIGHT TO STRIKE DAY! on Wednesday February 1st
FOLLOWING the moving of the new Tory anti-union legislation in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the TUC announced yesterday that it will hold...
UK Threatened By Global Shocks – Says Bank Of England Report
The UK economy is under threat of collapse from ‘global shocks’, and has no real independence and little room for manoeuvre. This subordination of...
STOP UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT! – Labour insists maintain £20 uplift
‘REDUCING Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit would be fundamentally the wrong decision. It would be a profound mistake and put millions of families...
Colleges Strike For 5% Pay Rise!
‘WHAT do we want? Five per cent! When do we Want it? Now!’ rang out on the picket line outside Lambeth College yesterday morning,...
POLICE MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT – insist de Menezes family
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes on Thursday demanded action be taken to hold individual police officers to account for the killing of...